Day 2: I am the only guy holding a tag now, and I decide to give the hunt area from yesterday a rest and try a different BMA that I got my whitetail buck on last year. We sign in and start to head up my favorite draw and immediately run into a herd with 2 young 4 points pushing does. Nothing I’m...
Day 1 continued: after dropping my hunting partners buck at the truck, we cruise up the road to the west end of the hunt area to do some glassing. My dad is really trying to shoot his first whitetail buck so we are looking mostly for those. We glass up a small 4x4 whitetail about 700 yards above...
Day 1: we drove back in to the same area as the previous day. The three of us opted to stick together initially and started hiking into the large section south of the road. We had only gone 500 yards when I look back behind us and see a nice buck has walked over the ridge 100 yards from where...
Finally had time to finish up with my MT deer write up.
DISCLAIMER: I don’t think Montana should be letting me hunt deer in mid November on a general tag. Mule deer less than 4 years old were harmed in the making of this post, and they made some delicious beer brats and summer sausage. Here’s...
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Last day, Day 5: I’m pretty sure I had fever dreams about that buck. I know I’m going right back in there on the wild chance that he decides to come back to the same canyon. I spend the morning looking at some of the same bucks from the day prior, along with a very nice 4 point moving through...
For the afternoon, I quietly backed out of that plateau and back to the edge where the buck had gone over that morning. I set up where I could see his tracks from the AM on his likely routes down into the canyon. As soon as I set up I can see another nice elk shed in the cedars below me...
On day 4, I’m pulling out all the stops. I have been trying spots all around the unit and am slowly finding good deer numbers concentrating towards a certain area. I head in there a couple miles this morning and set up overlooking a beautiful canyon bottom with open steep side hills. Right away...
On day 3, I headed up to the highest point in the unit that I could find to hike back into a big steep canyon with a lot of good feed openings in it. As I am walking in, I barely need a headlamp as the moon is bright and some of these deer trails look like interstates with all the tracks form...
Day 2 I decided that the roads had finally dried up enough that I was going to try out some of the better looking spots I had scouted in the cedar tree country. I drove about an hour in the dark (that became the routine each morning) to park the truck and start hiking up the hill 30 minutes...
Day 1 dawned very cold but drying out. I opted to hunt a spot off the highway that I hadn’t seen as much sign in and that most people didn’t really spend time in. My home was to find some overlooked deer in some tougher to access country. Right off the bat I found a nice buck track on my walk in...
Next up was the hunt I had anticipated and planned for maybe more than any hunt ever. In my second year of applying for deer in New Mexico, I was lucky enough to draw an unguided tag in one of the better units in the state. Let me be clear that this is not usually my luck, but in the past few...
Day 3 pushed in a great cold front, but sadly we weren’t able to turn up the mature bucks we were looking for. It did provide some amazing views for us though.
I had to pack up and head home and back to work. My uncle kept hunting the rest of the season and had some great encounters but just...
Day 2: We went back up higher in the unit again looking for those same deer while my aunt went back after the nice buck they spotted the day prior. This morning was especially dead for deer movement in the higher country, although we were treated with some elk still bugling in some of the...
In Mid October I headed up to help out on my aunt and uncle’s deer hunt in Nevada. The season had been open for a bit and the outfitter that we were working with had helped a few folks harvest some really nice bucks already this year so we were excited at the prospects.
Day 1: we headed out to...
More to come on helping with Nevada deer hunt, my New Mexico deer hunt and my Montana (sure to be popular) deer hunt here soon when I have some more time.
This is only my second bull with archery equipment, and the first one was a much simpler situation than this one. I am lucky that I recovered this bull while also having the opportunity to learn a few lessons that could have easily cost me that outcome in this situation.
The bull wasn’t as big...